Recently Veeam released Veeam Backup for AWS. A new product providing cloud-native data protection to AWS workloads, whether they are born in the cloud or migrated to the cloud. With this new release of Veeam Backup for AWS, new considerations, specifically how to build a backup environment, must be put in place. Isolated accounts leveraging built-in AWS security boundaries are needed to be implemented. As such, a “Backup DMZ” should be used to protect all the data that is being backed up. Read more

2020 is already off to a great start with the recent release of Veeam Backup & Replication v10 as well as Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows/Linux v4. Veeam continues to stay true to its heritage by offering both free and paid versions of these products, and Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows and Linux v4 are offered as both a Standalone option as well as integrated with Veeam Backup & Replication. Let’s dive into what Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows v4 has to offer and why this release is hugely important. Read more

Veeam ONE v10 pairs perfectly to support Veeam Backup & Replication v10, with new monitoring capabilities for data protection operations including monitoring and reporting for NAS and Nutanix AHV backup operations that show you what is occurring in your environment in real-time. Let’s focus on some of the new features within v10. Read more

In Veeam Availability Suite v10, it’s easy to miss some of the potentially smaller topics that are in fact a really big deal. If you haven’t read the What’s New document for v10, you should, as I’m sure you’ll find some goodies that you can immediately enjoy. Some of those are the enhancements to enterprise applications. Oracle support with Veeam has taken a big step forward with v10. Now users have the ability to publish databases instantly from a backup to a point-in-time state. Read more

In this article we will cover the three new improvements related to making retention more flexible and easier to manage. Read more

Data portability allows the movement of data across different storage platforms and helps reduce overhead on primary storage systems. In this blog, we will look at new capabilities brought to Built-In WAN Acceleration and backup copy jobs. Read more

The beginning of a security mindset is to acknowledge that there is no such thing as 100 percent security in the cloud. When you operate from that understanding, then your defenses are up and your offense game is on.

Here is a summary of actions you can take to get started on a path to better data protection in Office 365. They aren’t listed in order of priority, so use them as you see fit in your awareness campaigns, budget discussions, and backup vendor conversations.

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Veeam Availability Suite v10 has brought a great deal of new features and functionality to Veeam customers everywhere. Today I want to take a look at two of my favorite storage-based enhancements in Veeam Backup & Replication v10: Snapshot-only Jobs and NetApp ONTAP SVM processing. Read more

Back in 2017 with the release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 we have introduced a new major feature: centralized management for the Veeam Agents. Since then our Agents have been receiving more and more enterprise-oriented features and this new release is no exception.

With v4 of Veeam Agent for Linux we have added application support for PostgreSQL and MySQL, deduplication storage support and some CLI enhancements.

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With the release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 in 2019, we introduced the Veeam Cloud Tier which enabled customers to take advantage of Object Storage. Due to its increasing popularity, infinite scale-out capacity and lower cost for long term retention, Object Storage offers many advantages over traditional block and file-based storage systems. We have witnessed an overwhelming adoption of Object Storage despite the fact that in Update 4, the Cloud Tier was only capable of offloading older data to help to reduce the costs of long-term archival. And now v10 brings more! Read more